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It Will Be Harder for Europe to Act

The opening of this EU parliament will see the newly elected members attempt to bite the hand that feeds them as they attempt to dissolve the very institution they were just elected to serve.

June 2, 2014 2:41 p.m. ET

Bret Stephens correctly sums up last week's election for the European Parliament ("The Ghosts of Europe," Global View, May 27) as political theater, with the fringe of Europe's political spectrum now poised to make their voices heard.

France's National Front, led by Vladimir Putin's recent admirer Marine Le Pen, was strong enough to outdistance the numbers garnered by both the ruling Socialist Party led by President François...